Dave Miller

I am part of the IT Team at the Mathematical Institute.

My job title, "Full-Stack Development Lead", is a fancy way of saying "web developer" – i.e. I build websites and web-based software.

I currently look after:

• The Mathematical Institute website (Drupal)
• The CMI website (WordPress - developed by One Ltd)
• The courses system (Moodle)
• The workflow system (Drupal + Maestro)
• The door entry management system (Laravel)
• The electronic notice boards (JavaScript)
• The IT asset database (web2py)
• The IT team wiki (MediaWiki)
• Some other IT tools (phpMyAdmin, phpLDAPadmin)
• The VMs hosting all of the above (Ganeti, Puppet)

I am in the office most days - train strikes and engineering work permitting! I'm available for meetings/discussions most days, except Wednesday afternoons when we have our weekly team meeting.

Before I joined the department in February 2023, I was a Senior Developer at Alberon for 15 years, where I specialised in Laravel and WordPress development, system administration (Ubuntu, cPanel) and DevOps (Ansible, Terraform, AWS). Projects included turn IT on, the International Association of Hydrogeologists, Oxford's Department of Physics and Department of Computer Science, and many more.

I also created Laravel Breadcrumbs, an open source PHP package, and maintained it until April 2020. More recently, I built an open source task runner: Bin CLI.